This collection of photos includes various farmed species of fin-fish, shell fish, seaweed and others as well as the farming practices carried out in many countries in the world
May 31 2018
Photo credit: Lucka Paschal and Erick Kiiza (Tanzania) Review: Lucka Paschal – Erick Kiiza (Tanzania) and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) So far, the culture of seaweed is limited to soap making. The culture and processing of seaweed are mainly conducted by women who form groups in seaweed culture and soap making. …
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May 29 2018
Photo credit: Marleyi Acuna Torres and Sandra Magally Sanchez Trujillo (Colombia) Review: Marleyi Acuna Torres, Sandra Magally Sanchez and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture shows a fish processing facility located in Silvia, Cauca (Colombia). The facility processes rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). This processing plant belongs to “Apropesca” -Association of producers and …
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May 29 2018
Phots’ credit: Marleyi Acuna Torres and Sandra Magally Sanchez Trujillo (Colombia) Review: Marleyi Acuna Torres, Sandra Magally Sanchez and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted pictures were taken in Antioquia (Colombia) and show an aquaculture facility used in the production of red tilapia in a biofloc system. This particular project is operated in …
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May 20 2018
Photo credit: Luis Landesman (USA) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Moina is a genus of crustaceans which belongs to the family “Moinidae”. As young moina is less than 400 µm in size, they can serve as the initial food for most freshwater fish species. Monia has been used as the sole food for fry …
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May 18 2018
Photo credit: Andres Delgado (Colombia) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture shows the eye-tagging of shrimp broodstock. This type of marking was found tolerable by shrimp especially large adult shrimp and is not lost during molting. Eye tags are commonly used to mark adult marine shrimp in captive broodstock …
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May 13 2018
Credit for the video and the caption: DO Xuan Hai (Vietnam) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) Tilapia culture in Vietnam usually targeted local markets before being exported to a large number in the USA and the European Union. Red tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) is mainly cultured in floating cages as practiced …
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May 10 2018
Photo credit: Aliadoumadji Rimadoum (Chad) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The introduction of fish farming in Chad dates back to the 1970s. Since then, several types of farming have been introduced and tested whereas some positive results have been achieved in earthen pond systems especially when the cost of fish …
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May 08 2018
Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Bayad (Bagrus bayad) is an important food fish that enjoys a high consumer preference. Almost all produced bayad is captured from natural waters in Egypt. The species occurs naturally freshwater water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and swamps. The inserted picture was taken in a …
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Apr 10 2018
Photo credit: Gideon Gicheru (Kenya) Review: Gideon Gicheru and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) According to FAO statistics, the contribution of tilapia in total aquaculture is almost consistent with a very narrow range from 72.8% to 74.7% during the period from 2010 to 2016, whereas in tonnage tilapia aquaculture produced 9115, 166602, …
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Mar 31 2018
Photo credit: Han Huong (Vietnam) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Viet Nam is by far the world’s largest producer of Pangasius with a production that exceeded 1.2 million tons in 2013 and with an annual export turnover of at least US$ 2 billion. The striped catfish (Pangasius hypophthalmus) which is …
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